[DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?

Wed Oct 29 23:26:57 EDT 2008

Studs are the norm in Texas.

In fact, if you're not a stud, you're a visitor.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
>Sent: Oct 29, 2008 1:48 PM
>To: Jim Hendrickson <chendric at bellsouth.net>
>Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?
>
>Jim Hendrickson skrev:
>> 
>> 
>> I think studded tires are required in Norway.
>
>I doubt they have to be studded. Winter tires are required under winter 
>conditions in Sweden, but studs are optional.
>
>Studs are illegal in Germany btw.
>
>> 
>> Jim, 
>> a Swede, Dane, Norwegian mongrel lost in the southeast.
>> 
>> 
>
>Thomas
>
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
>> Behalf Of adin at frontier.net
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:49 PM
>> To: detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway/tires?
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Scandanavian Brothers:
>> 
>> What is the tire of choice for winter???  Blizzaks?  something secret?
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> David, a swede lost in the southwest
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting gudmund frøland <gudmundfroiland at yahoo.no>:
>> 
>>> I bought a Pantera from US this summer ,picked it up in Oslo abouth   
>>> 7 weeks ago poring down with rain the whole 500 km home,ordered time  
>>>  for Norwegian plates and got time today. Woke up in the morning   
>>> realise it was snow outside,nerly craying of had to take the car out  
>>>  for a drive in this misserable weather.Drowe away 30 km for   
>>> inpection.Car worked fine and no comments while checked.
>>>
>>> Best regards     Gudmund Froiland
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Den ons 2008-10-29 skrev Larry - Ohio Time Corp
>> <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>:
>>>> Fra: Larry - Ohio Time Corp <larry at ohiotimecorp.com>
>>>> Emne: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>>>> Til: "'Thomas Tornblom'" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>, cengles at cox.net
>>>> Kopi: detomaso at realbig.com
>>>> Dato: Onsdag 29. oktober 2008 17.05
>>>> It is always a good news day when the southern parts of the
>>>> US get snow and
>>>> ice. The local news shows all the people sliding all over
>>>> the place.
>>>>
>>>> It is also good to know how fast to drive and when not to
>>>> drive in bad
>>>> weather.
>>>>
>>>> Larry - Cleveland
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
>>>> [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Thomas Tornblom
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 9:43 AM
>>>> To: cengles at cox.net
>>>> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Winter Driving in Norway
>>>>
>>>> cengles at cox.net skrev:
>>>>> Dear Torbjorn,
>>>>>
>>>>> You wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And Yuppie to day the first snow fall, with a
>>>> total chaos on the main
>>>>>> roads. Several 100 cars of the road.
>>>>> Please help me understand this situation. We in the
>>>> subtropical zone of
>>>> Oklahoma and Texas think that all residents of Scandanavia
>>>> are completely
>>>> familiar with cold, white snow material and are completely
>>>> competent to
>>>> drive in it. We think that the reason one or two inches of
>>>> snow paralyzes
>>>> Dallas or Oklahoma City and sends hundreds of vehicles into
>>>> ditchs, other
>>>> cars and freeway retaining walls is that we do not know how
>>>> to drive in the
>>>> snow. It would seem that Norwegians also have a short
>>>> memory and have to
>>>> re-learn each winter, too?? I just don't see how that
>>>> can be, but several
>>>> hundred Norwegians off the road don't lie. Aren't
>>>> you all supposed to be
>>>> natural ice, snow and rally drivers??? ;-)
>>>>
>>>> The same thing invariably happens every year in Sweden on
>>>> the first snow
>>>> and frost. It is as if snow  and ice is something
>>>> completely unheard of.
>>>>
>>>> I must also say that snow and frost is much worse in areas
>>>> that don't
>>>> normally see much of it.
>>>>
>>>> We who live up north has always looked down on the people
>>>> living in
>>>> southern Sweden, or anywhere closer to the equator, where
>>>> they run into
>>>> massive traffic issues if there are just a few snow flakes
>>>> coming down.
>>>> After having driven through southern Sweden during a
>>>> relatively mild
>>>> snowfall in December they get much more respect from me. I
>>>> have seldom
>>>> experienced anything so slippery and messy.
>>>>
>>>> It is normally much drier and colder up here, which gives a
>>>> much better
>>>> grip.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Thomas
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